Guilherme Rodrigues is a carioca software developer

From The Lean Startup to Good to Great, from Tribal Leadership to Zero To One, few works have captured the essence of a startup as concisely as the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. In the two part series, Henrik Kniberg delivers incredibly impactful startup insights. Here are my favorite quotes from…

This is really just a quick rant. Please, stop using the phrase "steep learning curve" to describe anything hard to learn! Why? Because it means precisely the opposite. The famous learning curve A learning curve is a graphical representation of the increase of learning (vertical axis) with experience (horizontal axis)…

I love Ghost. I have backed them in the very beginning and, ever since, they continue to deliver on their vision of a simple and powerful publishing platform. I know they have limited resources and an ambitious roadmap, but some things are really unnerving for a heavy user. This post…

God knows how much time developers spend on Stack Overflow. I was lucky it launched in August 2008, just as I was starting my career. As a beginner, I relied heavily on it for my newbie questions. One of the goals I had last year was to pay back to…

If you ask any colleague, they'll tell you I love WebStorm, the front end IDE by JetBrains. They might tell you I love it a little too much. Indeed, given the alternatives (Sublime Text, Atom, Brackets?), I find WebStorm incredibly superior in regards to code completion and error detection. It…

Software developers are truly blessed - and most of them don't know it at all. Why? Simple: software is the first ever industry with ultra-low cost-to-entry. Getting started is not capital intensive. That means you (mostly) don't need an investment and everybody competes (more or less) evenly. This creates something…